When Will These Plagues Be Ended--June 13, 2021

[From June 18, 2017]

 

Sadly, since this was first written many more little ones, 

in many more countries, suffer from starvation 

intensified by continued warfare and the pandemic.

 

O God, you work vindication

and justice for all who are oppressed.

 

And you hear the groaning 

of the little ones in South Sudan--

 starving, and their mothers have no milk; 

not your will, that one of these should be lost.

 

We have not listened well to their groaning; 

and if we hear, we only wonder-- 

when will these plagues 

be ended? 

 

Show us, we have a role to play

in ending them.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 103; 150; 117; 139

Exod. 6:2-13; 7:1-6

Rev. 15:1-8

Matt. 18:1-14

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 103:6

The LORD works vindication 
          and justice for all who are oppressed. 

 

Exod. 6:5

I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites whom the Egyptians are holding as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.

 

Rev. 15:1

Then I saw another portent in heaven, great and amazing: seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is ended.

 

Matt. 18:14

"…So it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost."  [Jesus to his disciples]